Child s garment



C. P. JENSEN.

CHILD'S GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I1. 1918.

1,321,641. Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

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CHILD'S GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-11,1918.

1,321,641. Patented Nov. 11,1919.

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CHILD'S GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

Application filed March 11, 1918. Serial No. 221,626.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHESTER P. Jensen, a citizen of the United States, and a resldent of Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertaln new and useful Improvements in Chlldrens Garments; and I do hereby declare that the and which may he, therefore, .readily re-' moved from or adjusted on the child.

, A further object of the invention 1s to provide a garment of this character which may be fitted to the chlld with a bloomer eifect without the use of elastics at the bottom such as are commonly employed. Elastics are objectionable in garments of this kind for two reasons. They become stretched after continued washing of the garment and are objectionable for use on a large or stout child, because of the tendency to retard circulation.

Another object of the invention is to produce a garment of this character wlnch may be adjusted in a measure to fit chlldren of diflerent sizes.

The invention consists in the combinatlon and arrangement of the elements shown in the drawings and described in the specification, and is pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view illustratlng the appearance of the garment on a child.

Fig. 2 is a rear view thereof with the garment opened.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the garment.

Fig. 4 is a rear view of a modlfied form of garment.

The upper part of the garment may be designed and finished in any preferred manner. It is shown as provided with sleeves 10. It is opened at its back from top to bottom and closed by any sultable fastening devices, as the buttons 11. The garment is made principally of two pieces of material, constituting the front and back members, 12 and 13,. respectively, the pieces of material being joined at the sides of the garment by lines of stitches 1 L, extending from the arm pits down to the bottom of the gar-' ment. The sides of the garment as seen from Figs. 2 and 3, are curved outwardly from the waist line 15 as shown at 16 to produce the required fullness at the lower part of the garment; and the back and front members of the garment are curved inwardly at the lower end of the seam as indicated at 17. The lower margins of the front and back members of the garment are unattached between the ends of the inwardly turned seams 17 and the lower parts of the two back sections 13, are preferably left unconnected to give greater freedom for the limbs of the child.

Attached to or made integral with the front member 12 at the bottom of the garment is an elongated tab 18 which is adapted to be turned under the crotch and to overlie the back members 13 of the garment at their over-lapping edges and to be detachably fastened thereto at its end in any suitable manner. The means herein shown for. fastening the tab to the back member consists of pro-- viding said tab with a buttonhole 19 to receive -a button on the back of the garment, which'in the design shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 may be one of the closing buttons 11 before referred to, or one of the supplemental buttons, 11, as shown in Fig. 2.

In the construction shown in said Figs. 1,2, and 3, a belt 20 is attached midway between its ends to the end of the tab 18, which belt when the garment is fitted to the child encircles the garment at the waist line. Said belt is provided at one end with a button 21 to engage a buttonhole in the other end of the belt to fasten the belt in place. When the belt is so connected to the tab,

'the buttonhole 19, by which the tab is fastened in place, may be formed in the belt.

In the construction shown in Fig. 4, the tab 22, which is joined to the lower edge of the front member 12 of the garment is-free at its end from the belt 23 and is provided with a buttonhole which may be attached to either one of a number of buttons 24 which are sewed to the rear member of the garment and disposed in a vertical row. This arrangement of the buttonhole and buttons provides means whereby the garment may it it be adjusted to children of different sizes; it being apparent that when the tab is attached to the lower'button greater fullness is provided at the bottom of the garment than when attached to the upper button.

From an inspection of Fig. 1 of the drawing, it will be observed that the reversely curved seam, which joins the front and rear members of the garment serves, in connection with the tab which passes beneath the garment and is attached to the rear member 13, to give to the lower portion of the garment 3. bloomer effect; the spaces between the said tab at the crotch and the inwardly turned seams constituting the leg openings of the arment. It will also be observed that this loomer effect is iven to the lower portion of the garment without the necessity of em-- ploying elastic or webbing about the leg openings. Furthermore, by reason of the fact that the lower edges of the garment members are not attached to each other, provision is .made for a considerable freedom of movement of the limbs of the child. It will be obvious that when the garment is to be removed or adjusted, it is necessary to unfasten only two buttons in the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, to-wit, the button 21 at the end of the belt and the button 11 to which the combined tab and belt are at: tached.

In the construction shown in Fig. 4, it is necessary to unfasten only a single button 24: to detach and release the tab. When the tab is so released the garment may be removed or adjusted upwardly.

It will be understood that the details of the garment may be somewhat varied from those shown in the drawings, within the spirit and scope of the claims hereto appended.

I claim as my inv'ention,

1. A childs garment, comprising front and rear fabriemembers joined at the sides of the garment by stitching which forms seams that are curved outwardly from the waist line of the garment and curved inwardly at the bottom of the garment, said garment members being unattached to each other at their bottom margins between the inwardly curved ends of the seams, and an elongated tab joined to the front member of the garment at its lower edge and adapted to extend beneath the garment and up along the back of the garment, with means to detachably fix said tab to the rear members of the garment.

2. A childs garment, comprisin front and rear fabric members joined at t e sides of the garment by stitching which forms seams that are curved outwardly from the waistline of the garment and' curved inwardly at the bottom of the garment, said garment members being unattached to each other at their bottom margins between the inwardly curved ends of the seams, an elongated tab joined to the front member of the garment at its lower edge and adapted to extend beneath the garment and up along the back of the garment, with means to detachably fix said tab to the rear members of the garment, and a belt attached to the end of the tab and adapted to encircle the waist.

3. The combination with the front and rear members of a garment which are joined at the sides of the garment by lines of stitches forming seams and are unattached to each other at the bottom of the arment, of a belt encircling the garment at t e waist line and a tab joined to the lower edge of the front member of the garment and adapted to extend beneath and upwardly along the back member and attached at its end to said belt, with means for detachably fixing the belt and tab to the back member of the garment.

4. A childs garment dimensioned to extend below theknees and open at the bottom, said garment being patterned to bulge laterally between the bottom edge and the waist line and provided with an elongated tab joined to the bottom edge in front and adapted to extend beneath the bottom edge in back and upward along the garment, and fastening means for detachably securing the tab to the back of said garment substantially at the waist line.

5. A childs garment formed at the back with two vertical margins, one lapping upon the other from top to bottom of the garment, and detachable fastening means connecting them near the top, together with a tab joined to the bottom edge of the front of said garment and adapted to extend under the bottom edge of the back and upward over said lapped mar 'ns; and fastening means for securing sai tab to the back of the garment.

In testimony whereof I claim the foregoing as my invention, I hereunto append my signature this second day of March, 1918.

CHESTER P. JENSEN. 

